MARCHER AT RUGBY
Game Of Golf Also
tNX Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 30. , Sergeant Percy Reis mana, the •‘medically unfit” recordbreaking marathon marcher, proved his worth at Rugby at Paeroa Domain today. He played as hooker for bis unit which beat a local team containing four Thames Valley representatives. 16-6 When he left a hotel for a journey with the other marchers for Papakura camp he said his feet were much better. "My feet are now perfectly okay,” he said. "Only 15 hours after I finished the march I joined the boys for a game of golf around the Paeroa Golf Club’s course.” He said the march gave him flat feet, before that they were ‘‘no flatter than normal.”
The reason for his medical unfitness classification was because he had had a chest operation 14 years ago, he said.
For completing a 100-mile “foot slog” from Runciman to Paeroa in Ihr 23min less than a reputed record for 100 miles by a British Army unit, Sergeant Retimana is the hero of his unit, the Northern Districts Construction Squadron, Royal New Zealand Engineers.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19610501.2.166
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Press, Volume C, Issue 29501, 1 May 1961, Page 16
Word count
Tapeke kupu
182MARCHER AT RUGBY Press, Volume C, Issue 29501, 1 May 1961, Page 16
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in